Joad might be worth a listen on your part then. Not a sax or glockenspiel in sight (that I can remember. Been a bit since I listened to the album).

Although I understand your overall point about X-Files, to say they didn't solve any cases would be untrue. Just in the first season alone, they solved the cases in Ice, Eve, Fire, Young at Heart, Miracle Man (I think), Tooms & Darkness Falls. Maybe even Born Again & Beyond the Sea (haven't watched those ones for a…

As a big X-Files fan, my recommendation would be to go through all the first 5 seasons (yes, there are some dogs, but not so many that it really hurts the overall seasons), cherry-pick during 6 through 8, and then avoid 9 (except for maybe the one where Burt Reynolds plays God. It's hilariously ludicrous). With that,…

Having just recently picked up this show (didn't see it back in the day), I think Zack is a bit off with TLG. As a straight-up dramedy, no, it doesn't have a lot. However, as a satire of the spy thriller genre (or parody, it kind of veers back and forth), TLG is quite entertaining and worthwhile, not to mention a…

Never mind the Foo Fighters, I want to see Rockin' 1000 play the Glastonbury Festival. Now THAT would be some mighty impressive logistics.

Tatiana Maslany gets nominated. About Bloody Time!

Ironically, I hated the Oilers. I had become a Jets fan about a year before I moved there, and spent the next decade seeing them get their brains beat in by Gretzky and co. My friends had many a field day with me.

I moved to Edmonton in '82, and seeing this is like a movie of memories from my past. The hair! The short shorts (mainly on the guys)! The deadly quiet, almost post-apocalyptic feel of the area (Ah, Edmonton)! It's all coming back to me, so vividly.

My main early thoughts were that it was good, but not great, and that the damned video for Big Me was played way too much (didn't help that I hated both Mentos and their commercials). But I'm glad that he's had a long and solid career. I always felt that anyone who named their band after UFOs deserved that.

Because he was too busy getting ripped off by American Gladiators.

Oh, definitely Mrs. S. Donnie needs to learn a lot from Helena to approach that description (wouldn't be surprised if next season Donnie learns some stuff from Helena to deal with the guy who beat him up).

Probably just by hiring him. "I know it's a ways, but I need something towed out to Cold River. Yes, I'm serious. I'll defintely make it worth your while." If it's a slow day, and the money's right, I could see that having happened.

Yeah, they were.

That was quite the motley crew the cop was breaking bread with there. Two con artists, two drug dealers, an aider and abettor to both institutional escape and assault with a deadly pencil (actually two people for that one), a noted assassin, and a general, and deadly, badass.

I think once you're watching the show at a "normal" rate (one episode per week during the season), rather than the faster binge watching you've probably had to do to catch up, the fast plot moves will be more manageable. It's definitely a show that requires some decompression time.

Thank you, Graeme. You and John have done us a great service.

-Good way to go out for the season. It kept ramping up the crazy during the last half, so sending season 3 out with such nutiness was fitting.

That will be Donnie's quest (although I think they'll hold that off until next season).

-I knew that the Portugese drug lords would be Helena cannon fodder for at least half a season now, but it was still fun to see it done, or at least the aftermath. And Helena looked absolutely adorable in the Alison winter outfit, especially with the fish-eye lens.

They have had a large impact, no doubt, although not quite as much as some people think (lots of information was being traded around civilization before the internet, just not quite as quickly). And I'm certainly accustomed to hyperbole (heck, I'm a longtime pro wrestling fan), but one needs to have some form of…